Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Doing things by halves is a mediocrity that simply wouldn\u2019t occur to Marla Sabo. When the former president of Dior Americas and private equity executive moved to Milan, it was for a luminous 1970s penthouse created inside a 1600s palazzo close to the Duomo. \u201cI remember wandering here on a chilly, foggy night years ago and thinking, how beautiful is this?\u201d she says, offering a platter of fruits and cheeses from the region of the Dolomites where her family originates from.\u00a0While working in New York, Sabo travelled to Milan regularly and was often told that she seemed to light up when there. On one such trip in 2021, she realised she didn\u2019t necessarily have to return. Deals can be done anywhere. \u201cI thought it might be nice to have a place of my own here rather than staying in hotels,\u201d she says. \u201cI originally planned to keep New York but the real estate gods had other ideas!\u201dThe move to Italy\u2019s fashion capital happened sooner than expected. A coup de foudre viewing, en route to the airport to return to New York, was quickly followed by an offer on her Central Park home. So she went for it, first lightening her load with a significant edit of the collections she\u2019d gathered over the years in Manhattan and East Hampton. \u201cI loved my old life, and many of my key relationships remain in New York. I\u2019m still involved with MoMA, which I treasure. But I also adore being in Milan.\u201dOf Italian-Hungarian heritage, Sabo grew up in a small town in western Pennsylvania that was home to many European immigrant families like hers. \u201cWe learnt so much because households kept the traditions of their homelands, religious beliefs and cuisines,\u201d she says. However, her taste for challenges and new experiences started young: \u201cI\u2019ve always been an adventurer with a strong sense of self-trust.\u201dShe moved to France for university, finishing with graduate studies at the Sorbonne. While studying, she met the head of the buying office for Bergdorf Goodman. \u201cShe introduced me to the management there, which launched my career as it exists today,\u201d she says. This led her to Herm\u00e8s, where she was senior vice-president, and then Dior. Following a tenure in a private equity firm, she launched her own company, becoming an independent adviser in luxury, finance and M&A. Sabo often works from home in this duplex previously lived in by a family with a love of entertaining, as well as frequently hosting gatherings. A mezzanine was designed for musicians to play above the salon, and triple professional kitchen hobs fold up neatly for smooth service.The conversion\u2019s architect was Jan Andrea Battistoni, who created an inbuilt L-shaped sofa with integrated side tables in the salon, framed by the curving pitched roof and rounded mezzanine above. Bespoke dining tables with striped marquetry are also by the architect \u2014 the one in the kitchen is more often where Sabo hosts local friends, while its matching counterpart in the dining room serves as a generous plinth for Sabo\u2019s recent commission: a silvery orb of daisies by American artist Chris Wolston, cast in aluminium from flowers picked from his Colombia garden.\u00a0Wolston\u2019s vase sits beneath a spiral of lights installed by Battistoni. The ceiling arrangement, which Sabo nicknames \u201cthe shell\u201d, complements sinuous shelves built to display Battistoni\u2019s original client\u2019s glassware collection. These days, guests at Sabo\u2019s gatherings use the curved lower shelf, which skirts the room at knee height, as ad hoc seating. She\u2019s still deciding whether to let it continue in this role or add objects. The upper shelf now holds a single vase, a \u201cChromatico\u201d ceramic by Spanish designer Jaime Hayon, bought after an event she attended with him in Paris. This after-dinner acquisition is characteristic of Sabo\u2019s spontaneity: she met Wolston in Tunisia where he was participating in an exhibition curated by her friend Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte.Sabo hasn\u2019t made any alterations to the apartment beyond furnishing it \u2014 though this took an interesting turn. In summer 2023 a tornado struck Milan, damaging the roof of the building and resulting in considerable water damage inside the apartment. While sensitive restoration work was carried out, Sabo travelled a lot \u2014 including to Tunisia, which came to influence the decor of her home.\u00a0A multicolour sketch for a series of carpets, another work acquired from Wolston, was inspired by light moving through palm leaves, framed in palm wood. Sabo reserved it the moment she saw it, along with a coffee table by Lebanese designer Georges Mohasseb. Also constructed in palm wood \u2014 relatively rare in furniture as it\u2019s challenging to work with \u2014 the round, textured table offsets the salon\u2019s right-angle sofa and echoes its curving walls. \u201cI had been sitting on that table, and after I stood up I glanced down and thought, actually that might be perfect. I caught Nicolas\u2019s eye and pointed at it \u2014 it was so easy.\u201d\u00a0As Bellavance-Lecompte lives around the corner, he was the first person she invited over. \u201cHe\u2019s an architect by training so I knew he\u2019d appreciate the space, but I hadn\u2019t expected that he\u2019d stay for hours as we talked through ideas for how to respond to its design.\u201d She didn\u2019t want to make the place a mid-century period piece, so \u201cNicolas suggested adding more artisanal works, to bring in a different character, and he was right\u201d.Now, charismatic craft objects sit alongside contemporary furniture, art and photography. A 1988 Helmut Newton print, shot in Monaco, faces the desk in the study; a 1950s Giulio Turcato oil painting is hung near the sofa; and collages by Jody Morlock, which used to hang in Sabo\u2019s mother\u2019s room in East Hampton, rest above the kitchen counter. By the spiral staircase leading up to the library, a witty Judy Dater photograph of fellow photographer Imogen Cunningham peeks over Lola Montes\u2019s ceramic sculpture \u201cGuardian Angels\u201d, a gift from the artist. Upstairs in the library hangs Saul Leiter\u2019s photograph \u201cDaughter of Milton Avery\u201d, which Sabo spotted in the FT before calling the gallerist to reserve it.Atop one of the stacks of books behind her sofa rests an edition of French journal Cahiers d\u2019Art. \u201cIt\u2019s a vintage edition, all about Matisse \u2014 it ties me to my time at the Sorbonne.\u201d She wrote her postgraduate thesis on the artist. \u201cWorking in luxury fashion helps shape one\u2019s taste,\u201d she says of her continuing interest in art. \u201cThe exposure to various cultures is fantastic, and as a merchant you have to edit, so you learn to sort through.\u201d She spends much of her spare time in galleries and visiting artists in their studios.\u00a0Sabo\u2019s pared-back home today portrays her serpentine path through life, work and interiors choices. \u201cI can\u2019t resist drawing a parallel between the curved walls here and the various curveballs that shaped the way this home has come together,\u201d she says. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing in this house without a story \u2014 if it\u2019s here, it tells a tale.\u201dThe result is a palazzo penthouse that\u2019s not only an architectural masterpiece, it\u2019s fun. And that suits Sabo.Find out about our latest stories first \u2014 follow @ft_houseandhome on Instagram<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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